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Newswire: New Israeli Settlements 08/11/11
In Israel, the interior minister gave final approval for another illegal settlement. And dozens of environmental groups are trying stop operations by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Email this pageThe Global Report Dec. 8-14, 2010
The European Union is losing faith in the war in Afghanistan. The Obama Administration worked with Republicans to block a criminal probe in Bush Administration officials' roles in setting torture policy. Latin American leaders decry what they see as unwanted American intervention into their region. His own panel says that President Obama didn't do enought for Gulf Coast states after the BP oil explosion. The Global Report is a non-profit news organization dedicated to providing under reported news to the citizens of the world.
GRITtv: Fatima Bhutto: Songs of Blood and Sword
"I'm not a feudal, I'm a writer," says Fatima Bhutto, but nevertheless she is best known as the niece of assassinated Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and as a prominent critic of her aunt's regime. Bhutto is a poet and a journalist, and her new memoir from Nation Books, Songs of Blood and Sword, looks into the long history of the Bhutto dynasty, from the origin of the Pakistani state to the floods that have devastated the country this summer--and the U.S. drone strikes that continue to kill daily.Bhutto joins Laura in studio for a special discussion of her book, her family's past, her relationship to Pakistani politics--and to the U.S.
GRITtv: Andrew Bacevich: The Bipartisan War Project
"War has become normal and the wars we engage in have become open-ended enterprises," notes historian and best-selling author Andrew Bacevich. More importantly, our ongoing state of war is one that has been created by politicians from both parties, and our entire way of life in the U.S. is implicated in its creation. In part one of a two-part interview, Bacevich joins Laura in studio to talk about his new book, Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the moment when he, as an army officer, realized that the story he'd been told about why we fight wasn't the full tale.
GRITtv: Google Vs. China: Human Rights or Intellectual Property?
In recent weeks, the tensions between the U.S. and China have escalated in a strange place: cyberspace. Specifically, Google decided that it was no longer willing to continue censoring results on Google.cn, and may potentially shut down its operations in China. Google cited hacker attacks on human rights activists as its primary reason, but Tricia Wang, ethnographer and researcher of technology usage in low-income communities, and Alex Pasternack, editor of Motherboard.tv, note that there are plenty of other issues at play here: intellectual property, class issues within China, and more.
GRITtv: The F Word: Immigrant Deaths Covered Up
Jan. 11 marks eight years since the Bush administration transferred the first prisoners to the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Ever since, human rights groups have pushed for the closure of Guantanamo, and they're pushing harder now for the Obama administration to implement its plans to transfer or release detainees and shut the place. Close Guantanamo and we'll restore the rule of law and American standing in the world, some human rights advocates say. Unfortunately, it won't be that easy. Prolonged detention in criminal conditions is not only happening in Gitmo. It's happening in our immigration system … Immigration detention centers exist all over the country. Which local reporters are going to dig into this where they are? Let's hope it doesn't take eight years. -- Laura Flanders
